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Showing posts with label Jeb Stuart. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Diary of Corporal Lawrence Van Alstyne: Saturday, October 11, 1862

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Before daylight. We have been turned out, for some purpose, and are standing in line with our guns and accoutrements on. Later. Are back i...
Saturday, August 3, 2024

Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop: Monday, May 16, 1864

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Appearances and talk on the streets last night indicated that they had news that worried them. This morning I learned from a sergeant, that ...
Monday, May 1, 2023

Diary of Private Louis Leon: September 9, 1863

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To-day we had a review. Present: General Lee, General Ewell, General Early, General Johnson and General Rodes, of our corps, and General Hil...
Sunday, November 27, 2022

Official Reports: Skirmishes near Charlestown and at Kabletown, W. Va., March 10, 1864 No. 3.—Report of Lieut. Col. John S. Mosby, Forty-third Virginia Cavalry Battalion, including operations to May 1.

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No. 3. Report of Lieut. Col. John S. Mosby, Forty-third Virginia Cavalry Battalion, including operations to May 1. SEPTEMBER 11, 1864. COLON...
Friday, October 21, 2022

Diary of Private Louis Leon: June 9, 1863

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We were ordered to Beverly Ford, to support Gen. Jeb Stewart, who is engaging the Yankees, and they are having a very hard cavalry fight: Go...
Thursday, August 5, 2021

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 11, 1864

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Bright and pleasant-breezy. This has been a day of excitement. At midnight the Departmental Battalion were marched from the south side of ...

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 12, 1864

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Thunder, lightning, and rain all day. The report of Gen. Lee's victory was premature, and Butler has not gone, nor the raiders vanishe...
Thursday, April 16, 2020

Major-General William T. Sherman to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, September 17, 1863

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HEADQUARTERS FIFTEENTH ARMY CORPS,                         Camp on Big Black, Miss., September 17 , 1863 . Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, G...
Friday, January 10, 2020

Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, May 16, 1864

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I yesterday took a steamer with a small company, consisting among others of Postmaster-General Blair, Senators Doolittle and Grimes, Messrs...
Sunday, January 6, 2019

John Brown to John Q. Anderson,* November 29, 1859

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Charlestown, Jefferson County Prison, Va ., Nov. 29, 1859. J. Q. Anderson , Esq. My Dear Sir , — Your letter of the 23d instant is re...
Saturday, April 14, 2018

John Brown's Interview with Senator James M. Mason, Congressman Clement L Vallandigham, and Others, October 19, 1859

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Senator Mason. Can you tell us who furnished money for your expedition? John Brown. I furnished most of it myself; I cannot implicate ot...
Saturday, March 17, 2018

John Brown at Harper's Ferry: The Fight at the Engine-House, as Seen By One of His Prisoners.*

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As to John Brown and his appearance at Harper's Ferry, probably there is no one now living who can tell more of that affair than myself...